AHMED H TEWFIK

AHMED H TEWFIK received his B.Sc. degree from Cairo University, Cairo Egypt, in 1982 and his M.Sc., E.E. and Sc.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1984, 1985 and 1987 respectively. Dr. Tewfik has worked at Alphatech, Inc., Burlington, MA in 1987. He is the E. F. Johnson professor of Electronic Communications with the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He served as a consultant to MTS Systems, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN, Emerson-Rosemount, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN, CyberNova, Milipitas, CA, Macrovision, Santa Clara, CA, Visionaire Technology, Fremont, CA, Ipsos, New York and InterDigital Communications, King of Prussia, PA.. He worked with Texas Instruments and Computing Devices International. From August 1997 to August 2001, he was the President and CEO of Cognicity, Inc., an entertainment marketing software tools publisher that he co-founded, on partial leave of absence from the University of Minnesota. His current research interests are in genomics and proteomics, programmable wireless networks, brain computing interfaces, healthcare safety and datanomic and pervasive computing and storage.
Prof. Tewfik is a Fellow of the IEEE. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1997 - 1999. He received the IEEE third Millennium award in 2000. He was elected to the board of governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2005. He was invited to be a principal lecturer at the 1995 IEEE EMBS summer school. He was awarded the E. F. Johnson professorship of Electronic Communications in 1993, a Taylor faculty development award from the Taylor foundation in 1992 and an NSF research initiation award in 1990. He delivered plenary lectures at several IEEE and non-IEEE meetings, including the 1994 IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoust. Speech and Signal Proc. (ICASSP'94), the 1999 IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, the 1999 IEEE Turkish Signal Processing Conference (SIU’99), the 1st IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Theory (2001), SSGRR2002w International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet, the 2003 European Union COST meeting, the 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems and the 2005 SampTA05. He gave invited tutorials on ultrawideband communications at the 2003 Fall IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, watermarking at the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing and wavelets at the 1994 IEEE workshop on Time- Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis. He was selected to be the first Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 1993 to 1999. He is a past associate editor of the IEEE Trans. on Signal Proc., was a guest editor of three special issue of that journal on wavelets and their applications and watermarking and a guest editor of a special issue of the IEEE Trans. on Multimedia on multimedia databases. He is currently an Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. He also served as the president of the Minnesota chapters of the IEEE signal processing and communications societies from 2002 to 2005.